Artificial Intelligence, often sobriqueted as a magic wand in the tech world and a saviour technology, is facing an identity crisis. Long billed as the crown jewel of 21st-century innovation, its shine is waning, especially among Generation Z. The generation known for growing up on screens and swiping through knowledge is now casting a skeptical…
The European Space Agency’s Proba-3 mission has achieved a major milestone by capturing its first images of the Sun’s faint outer atmosphere, known as the solar corona. This was made possible by two spacecraft flying in precise formation to create the world’s first artificial solar eclipse in space. One satellite blocked the Sun’s bright disk,…
India’s artificial intelligence (AI) industry is poised for a threefold expansion by 2027, reaching $17 billion, as enterprises shift from pilots to scalable deployments, according to a new report by Boston Consulting Group (BCG).The report noted that AI has evolved into a core business imperative in India, accelerating decision-making, driving innovation, and expanding market access…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s net worth soared to near $120 billion, up from $80 billion just a year ago, driven by surging demand for the company’s artificial intelligence chips.This boost lifts him higher up the ranks of the world’s wealthiest individuals on Forbes’ real-time billionaires list, according to a Reuters report.The chipmaker’s market value hit…
Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (AI) have emerged as rapidly expanding fields, offering a plethora of career opportunities across various sectors. The demand for professionals skilled in these domains is surging, with roles such as data scientists, machine learning engineers, and AI researchers being highly sought after. Notably, positions like artificial intelligence engineer and artificial…
BiVACOR titanium heart (Credit: X) An Australian man in his 40s has made history by surviving 100 days with an artificial titanium heart before receiving a donor transplant, marking a significant breakthrough in heart failure treatment, reports CNN. The man was implanted with the BiVACOR total artificial heart at St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney in November….
In his first meeting with top executives from PepsiCo, W.K. Kellogg, General Mills and other large companies, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, bluntly told them that a top priority would be eliminating artificial dyes from the nation’s food supply. At the Monday meeting, Mr. Kennedy emphasized that it was a “strong desire and…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday addressed concerns over job loss due to artificial intelligence (AI) at the AI Action Summit in Paris. He said that that AI most-feared disruption in ‘loss of jobs’ but history has shown that work does not disappear due to technology. He further added that the nature of jobs change…
Daron Acemoglu, a winner of the 2024 Nobel in economic science, gave me some answers. “There is a lot of hype in the industry,” he told me in a telephone conversation. Yes, he said, A.I. companies have made some “impressive achievements,” but he added that many financial and economic calculations were being based on mere…
Scientists warn that Artificial Intelligence (AI) has crossed a critical “red line” as researchers in China revealed that two leading large language models (LLMs) can replicate themselves, raising concerns about safety and ethical boundaries.“Successful self-replication under no human assistance is the essential step for AI to outsmart (humans), and is an early signal for rogue…